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Book of the Week: But You Did Not Come Back

Sara Kestelman

Marceline Loridan-Ivens

Penny Leicester

Elizabeth Allard

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Marceline Loridan-Ivens recalls her final and terrible days of the concentration camps.

Marceline Loridan-Ivens searingly honest acount of how she survived the Holocaust is written in the form of a letter to her father who did not survive the horrors, and who she has never known as an adult. In today's episode she recalls her final and terrible days in the concentration camps, and tries to imagine what happened to her father as he was forcibly marched hundreds of kilometres, away from the advancing Allies. Sara Kestelman reads.


Translated by Sandra Smith
Abridged by Penny Leicester
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.

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Searingly honest memoir by Marceline Loridan-Ivens about surviving the Holocaust.

Searingly honest memoir by Marceline Loridan-Ivens about surviving the Holocaust, written as an intimate letter to her lost father. Read by Sara Kestelman

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